Modifying vehicle armor

[djhz2001]

Hello KnightFanDragon,

Yes, M113, the Vietnam APC.

I think I got you mixed up with the ptr values. I was talking about the number that appears when you aim the weapon in the game when I referred to the damage coeficient (i don't know what to call it). The ptr i used is the pzb39, which is set up in the file as having {damage 30}, and the damage table decreases that values progressively with the distance of the shot. Therefore, i think the ptr values are good.

I tried doing what you suggested, but I could not get it to work for some reason. In the original .def file, the armor is as ("armor_medium" args 1.0). So, as I mentioned earlier, this armor is set up in Men of War\Mods\"my mod"\resource\properties\armoredcar.ext, so I tried creating a new one with different values, but I was not successful either.

One thing that I noticed is that in the .def file there is something that looks like this:

{volume "body1"
{tags "body"}
{component "body"}
{thickness 44
{front 38}
}
}

In other vehicles I have seen this, but I never saw that the volume description had body thickness description, so when you go to the game and select the vehicle, the armor appears as if it is 44-38, but in reality it is way less than that, and that is my main problem because I don't know how to change the real values.

Finally, when you look at the pz2f in the game, its armor description appears as 35-15, which is less than the vehicle I am trying to modify, but the pz2f is much tougher to destroy with a ptr, even if i use more powerful ptr rifles than the pzb39. Therefore, this suggests that there is something else I need to change in order to make the armor of the M113 congruent with the in-game description of its armor.

Thank you for the names of the german btr's, I always get them mixed up because their names are so similar. But i do like using them a lot.

Thank you for your help. I learned a little bit more about modifying vehicles, though I still have a lot to learn. Let me know if you figure out what is happening with the armor of my vehicle. Take care, and regards.